10,000 euros in funding for your innovative project!

17.05.2021 | VR Punk Pitch Battle" call for entries

Do you have an idea for an artistic and/or narrative VR/XR project? Would you like to pitch this idea online and live in front of a jury at the Virtual Reality & Arts Festival VRHAM! Then apply to us now and by 10 June!

Whether in a team or alone: in your 5-minute pitch, everything that the ZOOM platform has to offer is allowed. Do your thing and be creative. If our jury - consisting of members of the "Kurz + Innovativ" Film Funding Committee - decides in your favour, you can win up to 10,000 euros in idea funding. Send your idea (max. 1 page as a PDF) byThursday, 10 June, 18:00, angomig@ffhsh.de

The pitch will take place onSaturday, 12 June 2021, from 3:30 pmwill be held in English. However, applications can be submitted in German or English.

Who can apply for the "VR Punk Pitch Battle"?

In short: anyone! However, the project must not be part of a training programme or degree course and must be at the idea stage (i.e. not yet developed or already started).

The jury

Ralph Heinsohn, Designer, Produzent und Kurator immersiver Medien,
Britta Schewe, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Rocket Beans und
Insa Wiese, Leiterin Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg

Moderation: Arne Sommer (FFHSH)

What is VRHAM!

VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg is the first international artistic virtual reality festival to be held annually in the Hanseatic city since 2018. After two successful festival editions in Hamburg's Oberhafen creative centre and a third completely virtual festival edition due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year'sVRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival is planned as a hybrid edition from 4 to 12 June.

What is the "Kurz + Innovativ" funding programme?

Four times a year, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awards funding to innovative moving image content. Whether concept, prototype or production: With our "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee, we support artistic, narrative projects at the interface between technology, art and the future. You can find more information here:www.ffhsh.de/innovativ

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein goes VRHAM!

We share the same passion for the future of storytelling in digital spaces with the VRHAM! festival. At home together in the north, there is no better place for us to look for new ideas.

Credits: FFHSH

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